The unemployment rate announced by United States Department of Labor

United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The...

 does not include those too discouraged to look for work

Employment

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 any longer or those part-time workers

Laborer

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 that are working fewer hours than they would like. By adding these two groups to the unemployment rate, the rate becomes effective unemployment rate.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is a governmental statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and...

 in the United States

United States

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 keeps an alternative unemployment rate indicator similar to the effective unemployment rate called U6.